Steganography is a way to protect information by hiding it "in plain sight" within other types of digital content. Steganography complements rather than replaces encryption by adding another layer of security -- it's much more difficult to decrypt a message if you don't know that there is a message. See how to leverage .NET to create steganographic techniques that hide encrypted information inside common digital data files.
teganography, literally "hidden writing," is nowadays most often associated with embedding data in some form of electronic media. Data is hidden by adding or altering insignificant bits of information of a file. For example, an algorithm designed to embed a text message might slightly alter information describing the RGB composition of a pixel for an image file.
This article illustrates a typical steganography (or stego) application scenario. The application receives the data to hide as input -- text, audio, video, or image -- and the file in which data will be hidden, called the cover file. The stego file is the result of the process. Although it contains the original cover file data as well as the hidden stenographic information, the stego file is virtually identical to the cover file.
This article introduces the most common stenography algorithms and techniques. Then, it shows how to design and implement a .NET library to hide text messages in 24-bit bitmapped (.bmp) files. The sample code includes both a command-line and a GUI application that serve as proof of concept and let you experiment with the techniques discussed.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Stego Library
Page 3: The BMPCoverFile Class
Page 4: The BMPStegoFile class
Page 5: Building Client Applications
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